[Living Sensical] The Flywheel of Society - Nightingale

William James, in his Principles of Psychology, defined genius as little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
In his essay on habit, he referred to habit as the flywheel of society; the thing that keeps us doing what we have been doing in the past; the thing that makes us fear change regardless of the present condition of our lives. And the genius, as defined by Dr. James, seems to be that rare bird who knows that change is not only good, but inevitable. He anticipates the inevitable. It is he perhaps who makes change inevitable. He habitually looks at everything about him in an unhabitual way. He takes nothing for granted. He knows that whatever he sees that is made by man, or served by man, is imperfect, is always in the state of evolving.
We can form the habit of seeing things, not as they are, but as they perhaps will be, as they could be, as our changing world insists they be...

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